Darmstadt main station
| Darmstadt Central Station | |
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 Reception building
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| Data | |
| Location in the network | Separation station |
| Platform tracks | 11 |
| abbreviation | FD |
| IBNR | 8000068 |
| Price range | 2 |
| opening | 1912 |
| Profile on Bahnhof.de | Darmstadt_Hbf |
| Architectural data | |
| architect | Friedrich Pützer |
| location | |
| City / municipality | Darmstadt |
| country | Hesse |
| Country | Germany |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '21 " N , 8 ° 37' 44" E |
| Railway lines | |
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| Railway stations in Hessen | |
The Darmstadt main train station is located in the western city of Darmstadt and is one of the largest stations in the long-distance passenger traffic of Deutsche Bahn in Hesse . The railway system with the reception building , which has Art Nouveau design elements , was opened in 1912.
The separation station 11 platform tracks is one of the 86 stations of the price range 2 of DB Station & Service . In 2010, the Pro-Rail Alliance voted it Station of the Year in the “ Large Cities ” category .
history
The predecessors of Darmstadt Hauptbahnhof were two separate stations at today's Steubenplatz , which were built by the two railway companies that connected Darmstadt to the rail network in the 19th century: Since 1846 the Main-Neckar-Bahnhof , a through station on the Frankfurt – Heidelberg route and since 1858 the Ludwigsbahnhof , a terminus on the Mainz – Aschaffenburg connection .
At the end of the 19th century, the space available at both stations proved to be very cramped with increasing traffic, the urban growth of Darmstadt had reached the railway area so that the necessary expansion at the old location was not possible, operationally the separation into two stations was disruptive, as well as the obstruction of road traffic crossing at the same level on Rheinstrasse .
planning
From 1901 four different drafts, which were primarily concerned with a final solution to traffic management while retaining the two existing stations, were developed and rejected. In March 1906, the city administration and the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate Mainz finally agreed on a fifth draft. This planned to build a new through station about 800 meters west of the old train stations on a free area . The greater distance to the city center should be compensated by the connection with the tram . The Reichspost received its own railway post office north of the reception building , which had access to the lower-lying post and baggage platforms via its own covered bridge . This "Poststeg" was demolished in 1994.
For the tracks, a location in a cut in the terrain was planned in the southern part so that the roads could be led over the railway. The same also applied to the development: passengers enter the reception building at street level, cross the station hall on the same level and reach the platforms from an overpass using stairs (and for some years also using elevators). At the same time, there was a separate transfer for luggage and express goods service , which was converted into a bicycle parking garage during the last renovation . The northern track field, however, lies on embankments because of a sloping terrain .
construction
An architectural competition was announced for the construction of the reception building . At the express request of Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig , the new station was to be built “by a modern master builder, not a style architect” . Out of diplomatic consideration, Kaiser Wilhelm II decided not to interfere in this matter - although he otherwise intervened in the design of many reception buildings in the area of the Prussian Railways because he spoke to his cousin and colleague , the Grand Duke of Hesse-Darmstadt, on design issues for the main station of whose royal seat could not intervene.
A total of 75 designs were submitted. Friedrich Pützer and Fritz Klingholz each received a second prize. Friedrich Pützer received the order in 1908, but he was commissioned by the railway administration to revise his design based on the design by Klingholz, which was more appropriate to the requirements of rail operations. It remained the only station that was built according to Pützer's plans. As early as April 1907, a first “construction office” was opened for the project, and a second in March of the following year, which was closed again in 1910.
The work on the railway systems under the direction of Friedrich Mettegang , which lasted from 1907 to 1912, cost a total of 17 million marks . In addition to the station building for one million marks, which was built from 1910, this amount also included the laying of around 100 km of track systems, the purchase of land for around four million marks, the locomotive workshop to the west with 92 repair stands for around five million marks, and the railway depot . A total of 20 bridges and 36 other railway structures were built and 1.7 million cubic meters of earth were moved. To supply the steam locomotives with water, the water tower was built on the Dornheim bridge in 1910 . As a special technical feature, it contained the dispatcher interlocking at Darmstadt Central Station. This building, which was supposed to be demolished in 1978, is also a listed building and is used privately today.
The responsible construction department was only dissolved on March 31, 1914, as they had also been entrusted with the renovation of the Babenhausen station .
Commissioning and expansion
And with it the railway stations - the new station was inaugurated Darmstadt North and Darmstadt South - on 28 April 1912. The grounds were not yet fully completed, so into operation as from April 27, 1912 gradually made: For freight transport were the old train stations closed on Saturday, April 27, 1912. The offices were relocated on Sunday, April 28, 1912, and the new facility began operating on Monday, April 29, 1912. On May 1, 1912, most of the passenger traffic was moved to the new main station. The traffic of the Odenwaldbahn including the traffic to Groß-Zimmer was excluded . It was not until May 15, 1912 that these connections were also introduced into the new main station and the old stations were finally closed. Both the Prussian Railway Minister Paul von Breitenbach and the President of the Mainz Railway Directorate , Georg Michaelis, thanked for the successful, smooth transition from the old to the new railway systems .
On December 24, 1925, parts of the ceiling of the entrance hall's passage hall collapsed.
On November 19, 1957, electric train operations were officially started. In 1972 what was then a modern central signal box replaced twelve signal boxes .
Architecture of the reception building
The station represents the traditionalist architecture of Pützer, as it was typical for railway buildings of that time. The design elements on the facade and inside are reminiscent of the then modern Art Nouveau .
The station building was extensively renovated from 1998 to 2002 in accordance with a listed building. The 94-meter-long and 34-meter-wide transverse platform hall and the five 19-meter-wide and approximately 100-meter-long longitudinal halls for ten platform tracks were completely renovated from 2005 to 2008 for around 31 million euros. Elevators were installed to connect the transverse platform in the elevated position in addition to the stairs with the platforms below, making the station accessible for the first time. As an extension of the high-altitude platform access for travelers, a shopping center financed by the City of Darmstadt was built in 2000, which also enables access to a parking garage and the western part of the city, which is also home to the European space agency ESOC .
On December 24, 1925, in the corridor between the ticket hall and the platforms, the Rabitz ceiling was detached from the ceiling construction over an area of around 120 m². According to various reports, 12 to 16 travelers were injured. The cause was probably a statically improper anchoring of the Rabitz ceiling made in 1912.
A special feature is the so-called “ Fürstenbahnhof ”, which is attached to the south of the reception building for public transport. It was equipped with the usual waiting and sanitary rooms for this purpose, had a generously designed right of way and had its own access to platform 1, the prince's platform . The wall-mounted equipment with numerous Art Nouveau elements has largely been preserved. Before the renovation of the reception building, the railway police were last housed here. The Fürstenbahnhof is currently used as a restaurant and is therefore also open to the public.
The reception building with its 138 meters wide façade towards the city, the west bridge-head elevated perron and made accessible from above Gleishalle, five ships and platforms, is now due to the Hessian Monument Protection Act as a cultural monument under monument protection .
Traffic importance
With a good 40,000 travelers a day, the train station is, measured by the volume of traffic and apart from a few S-Bahn stations in Frankfurt am Main, the second largest train station in Hesse after Frankfurt Central Station together with Wiesbaden Central Station . Around 220 trains run here every day.
Long-distance transport
The station is in the network of long-distance passenger traffic of Deutsche Bahn AG involved, even if the majority of traffic in a north-south long-distance trains on the Ried Railway runs. Several Intercity and Intercity Express lines connect the city directly with Stralsund (via Hanover and Hamburg ), Karlsruhe and Salzburg (via Stuttgart and Munich ). There are also individual direct connections, for example to Berlin , Dresden , Paderborn , Zurich , Klagenfurt , Linz and Graz .
| line | route | Clock frequency |
|---|---|---|
| ICE 4 | Hamburg-Altona - Hamburg - Hanover - Frankfurt - Darmstadt | a train (Mon-Fri) |
| ICE 15 | ( Binz - Pasewalk -) Berlin - Halle - Erfurt - Frankfurt - Darmstadt (- Heidelberg - Stuttgart ) / (- Mannheim - Kaiserslautern - Saarbrücken ) | individual trains |
| ICE 26 | Stralsund - Hamburg - Hanover - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Gießen - Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Heidelberg - Karlsruhe | Every two hours |
| ICE 41 | Darmstadt - Frankfurt - Frankfurt Airport - Cologne Exhibition Center / Deutz - Düsseldorf - Duisburg - Essen - Dortmund - Paderborn - Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe - Fulda - Würzburg - Nuremberg - Munich | a train (Mon-Fri) |
| EC / IC 62 | Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Stuttgart - Munich - Salzburg - Graz / Klagenfurt | four pairs of trains |
| FLX 10 | Stuttgart Hbf - Heidelberg - ( Weinheim (Bergstrasse) ) - Darmstadt - Frankfurt (M) Süd - ( Fulda - Eisenach - Gotha ) - Erfurt - Halle (Saale) - Berlin Südkreuz - Berlin Hbf (deep) | 1-2 train pairs (FLIXTRAIN, until March 20, 2020) |
Regional traffic
In rail transport , the Darmstadt main train station is the 1997 lines S3 and S4 to the Rhine-Main S-Bahn connected. There are further regional connections to Frankfurt am Main (via Langen ), Wiesbaden (via Groß-Gerau and Mainz ), Aschaffenburg (via Dieburg and Babenhausen ), Mannheim or Heidelberg (via Bensheim and Weinheim ) and Erbach (Odenwald) or Eberbach (via Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach ). The train connections to Riedstadt-Goddelau (via Griesheim ) and Groß-Zimmer (via Roßdorf ), however, have long been suspended. The Pfungstadtbahn was reactivated on December 11, 2011 with the 2011/2012 timetable change. The Odenwaldbahn was extended beyond Darmstadt's main train station as the RB 66 to Pfungstadt. With the 2018/2019 timetable change on December 9, 2018, the half-hourly service in regional traffic between Frankfurt and Darmstadt was extended to all weekdays.
| line | course | Tact |
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| RE 60 | Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Bensheim - Heppenheim - Weinheim - Mannheim | Hourly |
| RE 80 | Darmstadt - Darmstadt North - Reinheim - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach | Every two hours (Mon-Fri) |
| RB 66 | Darmstadt - Darmstadt-Eberstadt - Pfungstadt | Hourly (Mon-Sat) Two- hourly (Sun) |
| RB 67 | Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Bensheim - Heppenheim - Weinheim - Neu-Edingen / Friedrichsfeld - Mannheim / Schwetzingen | Hourly (alternating to Mannheim and Schwetzingen) |
| RB 68 | Frankfurt - Darmstadt - Bensheim - Heppenheim - Weinheim - Neu-Edingen / Friedrichsfeld - Heidelberg - Wiesloch-Walldorf | Hourly |
| RB 75 | Wiesbaden - Mainz - Groß Gerau - Darmstadt - Dieburg - Babenhausen - Aschaffenburg | Hourly half-hourly (Mon-Fri; Sat Wiesbaden-Darmstadt) |
| RB 81 | Darmstadt - Darmstadt North - Reinheim - Groß-Umstadt Wiebelsbach - Erbach - Eberbach | Every two hours |
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Bad Soden - Frankfurt-Rödelheim - Frankfurt West - Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Langen - Darmstadt | Half-hourly |
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Kronberg - Frankfurt-Rödelheim - Frankfurt West - Frankfurt - Frankfurt South - Langen - Darmstadt | individual trains (in night traffic) |
Transportation
In terms of local public transport , the main train station is connected to the local public transport network and regional bus routes by HEAG mobilo trams and buses . There are also direct bus connections to Frankfurt am Main and Frankfurt-Hahn airports .
| line | course | Tact |
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| 1 | Darmstadt - Rhine / Neckarstrasse - Landskronstrasse - Eberstadt Frankenstein | 30 min (Mon-Fri) |
| 2 | Darmstadt - Luisenplatz - Böllenfalltor | 15 min (during peak hours on school days) |
| 3 | Darmstadt - Luisenplatz - Lichtenberg School | 15 minutes |
| 5 | Darmstadt - Luisenplatz - Rhönring - Kranichstein train station | 7.5 min / 15 min |
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| Bensheim |
 ICE 15 / ICE 26 / IC 62 Main-Neckar-Bahn |
Frankfurt Central Station | ||
| Mannheim Central Station |
ICE 15 Main-Neckar-Bahn |
Frankfurt Central Station | ||
| Weinheim Central Station |
FLX 10 Main-Neckar Railway |
Frankfurt South | ||
| Bickenbach (Bergstrasse) |
RE 60 Main-Neckar-Bahn |
Long (Hess) | ||
| Darmstadt South |
RB 66 Pfungstadtbahn |
The End | ||
| Darmstadt South |
RB 67 / RB 68 Main-Neckar Railway |
Long (Hess) | ||
| Weiterstadt |
RB 75 Rhein-Main-Bahn |
Darmstadt North | ||
| Beginning |
RE 80 / RB 81 Odenwaldbahn |
Darmstadt North | ||
| Beginning |
 S3 / S4 S-Bahn Rhein-Main |
Darmstadt-Arheilgen | ||
literature
- Christian Bedeschinski (Ed.): Darmstadt Central Station. 100 years in the service of mobility . VBN Verlag Bernd Neddermeyer, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-941712-28-7 .
- Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 62 .
- Günter Fries, Nikolaus Heiss, Wolfgang Langner, Irmgard Lehn, Eva Reinhold-Postina: City of Darmstadt = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 562ff.
- Bernhard Hager: “... a sample plant that will be exemplary for many years to come. - 100 years of Darmstadt Central Station ”. In: Yearbook for Railway History. 44 (2012/2013), pp. 25-48.
- Bernhard Hager: (Not) a question of style. In: Railway history. 53 (2012), pp. 10-15.
- Wolfgang Löckel: Darmstadt and its railways . EK-Verlag, Freiburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-88255-232-4 .
- NN: Competition for preliminary designs for the reception building at the new main train station in Darmstadt. In: Zentralblatt der Bauverwaltung , Berlin, February 29, 1908, pp. 118–120.
- Angelika Nold: The reception building of the main train station in Darmstadt. A Phyrrhic victory in Art Nouveau. Hessische Heimat, 26. Jg., 1976, Issue 4, pp. 115-125.
Web links
- Tracks in service facilities (FD) , DB Netz AG (PDF)
- Pictures of the Darmstadt main station
- DADINA flyer “From the main train station to the city center” with an overview of the lines, stop allocation and central bus station ( Memento from April 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 315 KiB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Stephan Hoffmann: Darmstadt's train stations. The development to the South Hessian hub. In: Railway courier . No. 490, July 2013, p. 59.
- ↑ Annette Wannemacher: No salvation for the post bridge. In: Darmstädter Echo , May 6, 1994.
- ↑ Bernd Kimmel: Joseph M. Olbrich 1867-1908 . Mathildenhöhe September 18 - November 27, 1983, exhibition catalog, p. 264.
- ^ Günter Fries, Nikolaus Heiss: City of Darmstadt = monument topography Federal Republic of Germany - cultural monuments in Hesse. Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen. Braunschweig 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 565.
- ↑ Hager: sample work. P. 34.
- ↑ Hager: sample work. P. 37.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of April 20, 1907, No. 20. Nachrichten, p. 243.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 28, 1908, No. 19. Nachrichten, p. 210.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from March 5, 1910, Nachrichten, p. 92.
- ↑ a b c d Karl Assmann, Wolfgang Bleiweis: Railway junction Darmstadt through the ages - seven stations on seven routes . Ed .: Roßdörfer Eisenbahn Club eV 1987, p. 6.
- ↑ Based on the year 1912, adjusted for inflation, this corresponds to around 90,400,000 euros in today's currency. The number was based on the template: Inflation determined, has been rounded to 100,000 euros and relates to last January.
- ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.1 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 241 .
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 28, 1914, No. 16. Nachrichten, p. 108.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Journal of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz of March 16, 1912, No. 14. Announcement No. 161, p. 82.
- ^ Eisenbahndirektion Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Royal Prussian and Grand Ducal Hessian Railway Directorate in Mainz from May 4, 1912, No. 24, p. 171.
- ^ Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz (ed.): Official Gazette of the Reichsbahndirektion in Mainz of August 28, 1926, No. 38. Nachrichten, p. 342.
- ^ Renewal of the hall roof at Darmstadt main station. Ed. Züblin AG, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 23, 2010 .
- ↑ Darmstädter Zeitung of December 28th and 30th, 1925.
- ^ Heinz Schomann : Railway in Hessen . Railway history and building types 1839–1999 / Railway buildings and lines 1839–1939. In: State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen (Ed.): Cultural monuments in Hessen. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany . Three volumes in a slipcase. tape 2.2 . Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart 2005, ISBN 3-8062-1917-6 , p. 1064 .
- ↑ Hager: sample work. P. 46.
- ↑ HEAG AirLiner timetable 2008 ( Memento from December 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.merth-reisen.de/members/frontend/as/showcontent.asp?xsl=&profil=merthreisen&folder=merthreisen&contentid= GenealogieB56D5680-4CB4-4F8F-9B20- AFF59D1FF7B8} (link not available)